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NAVESTOCK IN OLDEN DAYS ;
Mr. Durrant, one of the Librarians, reported that Dr. Cooke had presented to
the Library about thirty books, consisting mainly of local floras.
Dr. Henry Laver, F.L.S., then read a paper on "Potash-making in Essex ; a
Lost Rural Industry." This paper will be printed in full in the next volume of
The Essex Naturalist. An interesting discussion ensued, carried on by
Prof. Meldola, Mr. J. Spiller, Mr. Dymond, Mr. Shenstone, Mr. Chalkley Gould,
Dr. Thresh, Mr. Webb, Prof. Almond, Mr. T. V. Holmes, and the author.
The Rev. W. C. Howell read "Short Notes on the Foxglove, chiefly
Etymological and Local."
Mr. Miller Christy gave a description of a specimen of the Serotine Bat
(Scotophilus serotinus), which he exhibited and presented to the Club, recently
caught in his house at Broomfield, being the second known Essex specimen (ante,
page 102).
Cordial votes of thanks were passed to the authors of the papers, and to
Dr. Cooke, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Christy for their valuable donations.
The Museum was open during the afternoon, so that the members might see
the progress already made in the arrangement of the rooms.
NAVESTOCK IN OLDEN DAYS; STRAY NOTES,
PREHISTORIC, SAXON, AND NORMAN.
By REV. S. COODE HORE, Curate of Navestock.
[Read July 24th, 1894.]
AS a matter of course, the very mention of prehistoric times
precludes any reference to the derivation of the name by
which our parish is now known. That the place, however, now
called Navestock, was inhabited at a very remote period is evident
from the earthworks which remain as silent witnesses to the existence
of such inhabitants.
I venture, to-day, to call your attention to two of such earth-
works :
1. The first was referred to repeatedly during the last century
by the well-known antiquarian Dr. Stukeley, as "The Alate
Temple, on Navestock Common."
2. The second is described on the map of the Ordnance Survey
as a camp.
I THE ALATE TEMPLE.
Dr. Stukeley made several visits to Navestock. He discovered
here an earthwork which his biographer says was supposed by him
to have been an Alate Temple of the Druids (Mem. of Dr. Stukeley,
Surtees Society, vol. III., p. 157), but I will give you the doctor's own